#not a retelling

[aaronofithaca05]

Okay, so, one day I was on the train and..

Light from the street-lights and some passing homes poked through the curtains as the train kept its motion through the night.

Menalaos’s shoulders slumped with the weight of Hermione’s head on his chest and the rest over his side their daughter snoring loudly while Helen kept grazing the magazines, bored, while the monotone crackle of the rails raised the wagon as the ebbs and flows of the tides.

Her sharp eyes stared at the god, her leg over the other, pushing the mix of papers over the stained table between them, Helen’s mouth arched in a slight smile that caught his attention.

– You really thought this was the best course?– Helen’s fingers were unmoving, but still the silent pointing made him sighed, the train, the crackle, the smells and stains grating both of their senses,

He leaned slightly, making sure their daughter would not arouse from sleep now that they had a moment of respite. Menelaos’s sardonic grin appeared on his lips.

– I’m sorry, Helen–. his tone with the same cadence they used to others of their kind.

– Didn’t know you preferred a more flashy escapade–. Memories of their long gone exit, the Rubble and charred remains of heroes and scum alike.

– Hush now, mariner, this is not the time for your kink–. Her teeth flashed subtly in a feline smile as his own blood rushed through his cheeks, the militant god stared at her.

–One to talk, mistress of destruction–

Furtives smiles peered from their faces, they always loved to be teased and tease, their laughter rising and falling in the same path at time as that dirty and stained old piece of rust through the night.

Rosed finger clouds marked the rise of a new day as the sphere of the sky marked the rolling hills of rapeseed, starting to greet the sun with their yellow flowers as the firmament changed from dark, to rose to blue behind the dirty and grimed window that let some miserable rays of light to enter.

Their first day stop was near, the striding sound of the brakes, piercing their sweet dreamless sleep as iron daggers.

Menalaos’s chest heaved up, against the weight of their daughter, while Tisameneus, younger thanks to the ichor that still runned through their veins, embedded on their beings was sleeping softly over Helen’s lap as a little creature even when the man had been killed long ago by the Heraclides.

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— Morning, Helen– Menelaos’s voice, though sweet still was weary, their fled had been quick as the train .

— Uhm….morning….—. Helen replied muffled as her hair was still plastered over her face, shining as bronze while tangled in a sort of mop, after all who would believe she was a mortal if she rose from sleep with her haired all braided and smelling as fresh cut crocus and sandal?.

— You’re looking good, sunshine— Menelaos’s laughter was cut short as soon as the magazine she read last night found his face.

—You too, **glykos mou**— Her reply was quick but not unkind before a small chuckle escaped her throat.

Menelaus though did not moved in anger, instead his fingers passed the pages, closing the them, putting the improvised projectile aside, Hermione still was asleep near her father, while her husband's Orestes was behind them, his gaze still moving, he did not liked moving to that place he never sailed to. Millenia had passed and so many times the wheel of seasons had turned it was ludicrous to even bother to count, still it reeked of the black Keres’s stench, still the screams of the Anatolians he never met ready to crush his skull.

Instead, the dirty and unkept, ready for the dumpster monster of metal and wood they were riding was a blessing for him instead.

Meanwhile on behind Oreste’s back, Menelaos’s gaze stared on Helen's face, a little longer, before cracking a smile as he combed with his hand what little colour his hair still had while his smile was warm and tender as cattle, staring at her, cow-eyed.

—Always dazzling for—. His hands combing it as a lyre, something he always tried to master, but failed.

—the best—sincerity poured from his lips as snowmelt at Tagelos's peak when the hunter sunk below the horizon, cascading down their valley.

Helen’s chuckles exited in parts, it was funny, little words he tried to convey, a marriage longer than the lifespan of civilizations and he still had to throw those inexperienced pearls as if the first time they've met, she bent towards him, in a slow arch, eye to eye, face to face, heart to heart, as she held his hands.

—Never change, glykos mou—. Menelaos's cheeks flushed redder than dawn but he chuckled, the sound fresh and clear to her heartfelt and deep wish.

@dootznbootz I hope you like sealy boy Menelaos hehe

[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[leftoversludge]

dude, looking at movie reviews on letterboxd for movies like lucy in the sky is straight up depressing. like a movie is a movie, art is art, someone made that and worked hard on that script, teams of people doing set design and whatever whatever and then we get to see it one our television screens, that's awesome. some people are forgetting to enjoy the ride and too fixated on critiquing it by their special little perfect movie formula, deeming what is and isn't worthy of being called a "plot," like they don't understand that a plot can't just be a woman in stem who was broken down to nothing in order to achieve her dream and then once that dream is achieved she's got no where to go from there and things start spiraling out of control and she begins to tear apart her own life bc what else can she do? she's won it all already, yet she still has her whole life ahead of her. like that episode of danielle mouse and the devil that bauhaus did, "you're at the top now, sweetheart," "yea, but where do i go from here?" the answer was hell.

[rustic-space-fiddle]

WIP of Penelope with her forever-unfinished shroud.

[msbunnat]

🦉 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒓

Here is my Atena design!

I'm thinking of making her a little more muscular, but slender, as if she represented the agility of battles. She rarely smiles, like a strict teacher who wants the best for you and one way or another, she will always be remembered. Also her snakes re a refference to medusa, as they represent each other (as my friend told me and I love to see like that).

And! Apollo and Athena after 'God Games' in EPIC - the musical and she gets this lightning scar.

Zeus beat the crap out of her, but he would never kill Athena!! And I like that it suits him to be so strict with her, at least for me, she is the oldest daughter and the one who suffers the most pressure. What I dont like... its that in Epic, Zeus changed to look worse again!! ;w; really, he was way chill about releasing Odisseus and just wanted to not upset Poseidon in the process....

[fastepp]

Every time I see an author promoting their debut Greek mythology retelling on twitter I mourn the loss of like. To put in ineloquently. Just using these stories as inspiration for your own. Your story does not need to force itself to fit the shape of Orpheus and Eurydice it’s fine you can just allude to their story!! You can use their themes!! Nobody is going to arrest you for being allegorical instead of literal!! I might eat them alive at this point. It’s the only way.

[whereisdiomedes]

Draw this before Ithaca Saga o_o after 600 strikes Ody otw goin home w his new weapon. <3

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[aliciavance4228]

"Nobody gave a voice to these Greek Mythology female characters."

Euripides after writing Andromache, Andromeda, Antigone, Danaë, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Merope, Wise Melanippe, Captive Melanippe, Peliades, The Phoenician Women, The Trojan Women etc.

[geezmarty]

playing around with concepts for my next comic, which is basically going to be carmilla fanfiction 🖤🩸

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Just saw a video like "um actually rocky horror isn't good queer representation because frank sexually assaults janet" girl he kills and eats people. It's called the rocky HORROR picture show not the rocky cute gay rep tw t-slur picture show

[i-m-van-goghing-now]

Stay in my open arms

Love in Paradise is my favorite song of the saga...maybe the whole concept album. God, I was in tears.

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[rustchild]

desperately craving weird surrealist arthurania. Knights with no faces wandering through the mists. Seams between Christian and pre-Christian Britain gaping like open wounds. Beafts and visions. Maybe a monk. Maybe the monk is gay

[retellingthehobbit]

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[siderains]

jokes aside, the dialogue

“orpheus… can you look at me?”

and he doesn’t turn

“please, look at me.”

“i dont want to.”

“why?”

“because you’re not coming with me, are you?”

might be a refreshing take on an old tale, might be a love letter to mythology, yeah congrats kaos writers for making something truly interesting

[msbunnat]

Gift for a friend~